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TopCat_ said:
That's the point though - finishing 8th this season (for example) wouldn't be, in my opinion evidence of us standing still, or even regressing. It's a tough league, and there are going to be 6/8 teams with whom we cannot compete financially. Either the recruitment team are going to have to pull some unbelievable out of the bag, or we get lucky with injuries etc OR we accept that it might not be as successful a season this year.

Southampton will have over £100m in the bank after player sales
Leicester close to £80m
Coventry £40m
Boro £15m+
Watford £20m+
Leeds haven't sold anyone, but have £35m in parachute payments

It's going to be extremely hard competing with these teams - not to say it can't be done, but we might need to temper expectations.....
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Also remember selling the Crown jewels is a capital offence at SAFC, we let 3 kids go who we could not stop and all hell breaks out.
 
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Bob the Mackem said:
Also remember selling the Crown jewels is a capital offence at SAFC, we let 3 kids go who we could not stop and all hell breaks out.
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True, but that was part of a wider narrative at the time where Madrox were selling anything that moved so they could pay the wage bill.
Not a lot we could do about the likes of Greenwood, Hugill etc but I did hear directly from the family of Logan Pye that the club made no effort to try and convince him to stay.

In any case, selling your best players for £20-30m is different to losing the for a nominal fee because you can't/won't give them a pathway to the team and can't/won't pay the leccy bill
 
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Culinary said:
Great, we’re now being revisionist about Donald’s time to try and make now seem worse.

A number of those kids were being touted around to other clubs, in some cases behind the parents’ backs.
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Donald's time at the club can be summed up as thus:

Scraped together enough money for a down payment, bought the club with it's own money, gambled it all on promotion and selling on for a profit. Failed, shat the bed and had to sell off anything we could get a price for to keep the club afloat.

Fin
 
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TPFNAC said:
Ffp rules is a 39 million loss over a 3 year period.

Theoretically with amortisation you could spend £50 million now on 5 players with 5 year deals, the loss is spread over their contract period, so £10 million a year loss, sell a Clarke or ballard next summer for £20 million and that profit hits the account in full when you sell so would pretty much balance it out, over the 3 years with selling and spending
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Does this apply to Saudi?
 
TopCat_ said:
That's the point though - finishing 8th this season (for example) wouldn't be, in my opinion evidence of us standing still, or even regressing. It's a tough league, and there are going to be 6/8 teams with whom we cannot compete financially. Either the recruitment team are going to have to pull some unbelievable out of the bag, or we get lucky with injuries etc OR we accept that it might not be as successful a season this year.

Southampton will have over £100m in the bank after player sales
Leicester close to £80m
Coventry £40m
Boro £15m+
Watford £20m+
Leeds haven't sold anyone, but have £35m in parachute payments

It's going to be extremely hard competing with these teams - not to say it can't be done, but we might need to temper expectations.....
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If we’re to achieve KLD’s plan of premier league football within 5 years we need to get promoted by the end of the season after this.

So if we do finish further down the table than last season IMO it’s a step back not just because we’ve finished a few places lower but because there’s now more teams between us and our goal.

Those teams will have improved to which their league position is evidence of that so where do we go if we say finish 8/9th this season? I’m not saying that’s a bad season at all by the way because as you’ve mentioned there’s a lot of good teams with decent budgets in there this season but something would have to give at the end of the season if we were to finish below the play offs because we either accept we aren’t getting PL football within the timeframe we wanted or we have to spend to bring in quality to push on that season.
 
WorkyTicketFTM said:
If we’re to achieve KLD’s plan of premier league football within 5 years we need to get promoted by the end of the season after this.

So if we do finish further down the table than last season IMO it’s a step back not just because we’ve finished a few places lower but because there’s now more teams between us and our goal.

Those teams will have improved to which their league position is evidence of that so where do we go if we say finish 8/9th this season? I’m not saying that’s a bad season at all by the way because as you’ve mentioned there’s a lot of good teams with decent budgets in there this season but something would have to give at the end of the season if we were to finish below the play offs because we either accept we aren’t getting PL football within the timeframe we wanted or we have to spend to bring in quality to push on that season.
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Good post mate. However, at the end of this season,if we do finish 8th or 9th, many of these players will have another season under their belt and another season,hopefully,of individual and collective strengthening and improvement. We mustn't underestimate the capacity of these young players to learn and improve. Much better for them to be competitive in the Championship for another year than going into the PL before they're ready and getting battered every week. When we get promotion,we want to be able to add the necessary and properly compete.
 
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